So I'm standing on top of this mountain. It is still dark outside in the morning. No one's up. No one's in sight.
And I'm just giving a story. Just telling my story. My entire life story, pretty much. And I do this for 20 minutes.
And I felt amazing. I was just standing there. Just telling my story. Practicing my body language, my posture, walking around. And I just felt amazing.
I felt like the king of the world. And I'm on top of a hill. Like, I'm literally standing on top of a hill. I can see the highway.
Off in the distance of all the cars, zooming by. I can see all the street lights. I can see like this park that I'm standing in front of.
And this like grass area down below. And my audience is just the grass. It's like, I'm just telling my story to the grass.
And this was in the middle of my workout. My morning workout out in the park. And I completely forgot about that.
After that happened, I didn't really think much of it because lately I've been doing that a lot. I've been walking around on my walks, telling myself a story, just practicing my storytelling.
I've been walking around the park down below, practicing my storytelling over the past couple of weeks.
It was just a normal, ordinary day. Nothing really out of the ordinary.
And I tell you this because that was a pretty good story, I think. I'm just, I think it was a really cool experience.
But I completely forgot about it. It was completely lost in my mind.
And a couple of weeks ago, I started doing this habit. I started doing this thing called daily story work.
And I heard about it from Hamza, read it in a book called Storyworthy.
It's pretty much where every single day you sit down at the end of the day and just write down a story that happened from that day.
And so I'm sitting there at night time, about to go to bed, and I'm just thinking to myself, huh, what happened today?
And all my days are pretty much identical. I pretty much do the same thing every day.
Same thing, same time, my routine is very strict.
So I'm just thinking like, what did I do? What, like, did anything out of the ordinary happen?
And after like 10, 15 minutes of thinking, I'm like, I go back through my entire routine. I'm like, okay, I wake up, take a shower, I eat, I go to the park.
And then I keep doing this and I'm like, oh, I remembered that I did something pretty cool this morning.
I pretty much acted like I was a preacher on top of a mountain giving a sermon or something like that.
And just tell my story. And it was a very cool experience.
And so I was like, oh, that's a really cool story to write down.
And that's just one of many stories that I have came up with over the past 14 days.
I've only been doing this for 14 days.
And I already have so many stories that I can literally, I have them all written down, all the titles of the stories, and I can pick a story and then tell it.
And I just think that it's so worth it doing this storytelling, like gathering all the stories.
And the more and more I do it, the more confirmation of that that I get.
Because even just yesterday, I was reading a book on storytelling and there was a quote.
He said, Rob Bezenbach on the book, The Power of Storytelling.
And he said, An effective communicator is a lifelong collector of stories.
So pretty much you are always collecting stories.
And that confirmed that was one piece of confirmation that I received from the habit that I've picked up over the past couple weeks.
I've been collecting stories.
And it's really worth it. So definitely do that.
That's like the daily story work.
I renamed it.
I think it's actually called like lifelong homework or something like that.
But it's all the ideas the same.
You just sit at the end of the day at your journal and question like, what kind of stories happened today?
Did anything happen that was an interesting thing or something worth telling?
And I've been pretty much just writing the first thing that comes to mind.
And then if I have a couple of things, I write down a few other things.
And it wasn't until over the past like two days that I started thinking about like story structure and like having different elements to your story to actually make sure that it's powerful and not just like a recount of events.
And so I realized that the definition of a story is in I learned about this in Unleashed the Power of Storytelling.
He basically said that there are so many different definitions, but the simplest one is a story is a character in pursuit of a goal in the face of a challenge.
So pretty much just remember that character goal challenge.
And the my story that I gave earlier, I can't really think of like what the challenge was, but I can think character was me.
The goal was to become a better storyteller and the challenge I can't really think of it.
Maybe I don't know, but I think that it was still a pretty good story, even though it didn't really have a challenge.
Maybe there was a challenge, it was just hidden, I don't know, but start studying storytelling.
It's very good, it's actually changed my life.